A Montessori Instructor, Moyosoreoluwa Odegbayi, has suggested that age should not be a restriction to education acquisition, stressing that age is not a measure for academic competence, following the debate around the age for entry into institutions.

Odegbayi, who stated this in an interview with Dominion News, affirmed that age plays an important factor especially in identity formation, emphasizing the need for parents to help their children prepare rightly for their future.

Recall that, the Federal Government through the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, during the two thousand and twenty-five Policy Meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board held in Abuja formally set sixteen years as the minimum age for admission into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has announced a total and comprehensive two-week warning strike affecting all public universities across Nigeria.

The Union’s National President, Professor Chris Piwuna, made the announcement during a press conference at the University of Abuja, stating that there had been no meaningful progress to prevent the union from moving forward with its planned industrial action.

He explained that the fourteen-day notice had lapsed without any substantial response from the relevant authorities, adding that all ASUU branches across the country have been directed to commence a full withdrawal of their services beginning at midnight on Monday, October thirteen, two thousand and twenty-five.

ASUU accused the government of playing a game of delay and deception, adding that ASUU could no longer continue to tolerate endless appeals without tangible outcomes.

President Bola Tinubu, has arrived in Rome, the capital of Italy, to participate in the Aqaba Process heads of state and government level meeting on security crisis in West Africa.

According to the statement, participants at the meeting will exchange assessments of the current security landscape in West Africa and foster collaboration between regional and international partners to address cross-border security challenges.
In addition to attending the plenary sessions of the Aqaba meeting, President Tinubu, accompanied by the Minister of

Foreign Affairs, Bianca Ojukwu; the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru; the National Security Adviser, and other officials, will hold bilateral talks with fellow leaders to explore ways of addressing the rising security challenges across the subregion.

Meanwhile, Russian missile and drone strikes have caused power cuts in large parts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

The city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, disclosed that nine people were injured while residents in eastern districts were plunged into darkness and faced disruption to water supplies.

Meanwhile, a seven-year-old child was killed in a separate Russian drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia area in the country’s south-east.

Moscow has escalated attacks on energy facilities over recent weeks, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for real steps from allies to apply pressure to Russia.